Word: violiniste
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...vacation with Princess Grace. There he alienated music lovers and continued his vendetta against cameramen by showing up at a concert with Grace ten minutes late, strong-arming a photographer who tried to snap him and his half-sprouted goatee. Then, at intermission, petulant Rainier walked out on Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Composer Benjamin Britten before a performance of five of Britten's short pieces...
This wholesale invasion of Italy's music houses is an annual event for U.S. and European record companies. Costs are lower ($8 an hour for a violinist v. $42 in the U.S.), the big stars are on hand for Europe's summer festivals and therefore easier to get at, glamour names like La Scala Orchestra and Chorus help to boost sales back home. Philips, Columbia's European affiliate, has snapped up the San Carlo Opera House in Naples, HMV-Angel has moved into Milan's La Scala and London-Decca into Florence's Teatro...
...critics with its rapidly acquired ensemble discipline. It seems more successful with the works of Hungarian composers (Bartok, Kodaly) than in the standard repertory, stronger in the string section than in the brasses. To beef up the brass, Conductor Rozsnyai recently hired four Austrians; he also recruited an American violinist, clarinetist and horn player...
...idea eventually reached the ears of the National Assembly, which in 1948 passed the Suna Kan and Idil Biret Law to send Idil and twelve-year-old Violinist Suna Kan to Paris. On the advice of the Ministry of Education, the Assembly not only provided funds for the girls but also for all members of their families. Then it sat back to see just how the prodigies would make...
...students at the Conservatoire National, the girls did remarkably well. Violinist Kan won first prize in the annual